10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. And then we go back to the evolution of clutch size.

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Science Albatross Research Owls 211

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2019

In fact we often don’t have any chicks within two weeks of the eggs hatching and other pairs along the coast have not been successful yet this season. More eggs have been laid and hopefully other pairs of Pied Oystercatchers will soon have young to care for. Female on the left and two chicks next to the male Pied Oystercatcher.

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Feral Cats Eggs Shelters Feral 123

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

The Marabu Stork definitely has a face that only a mother could love. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Also, I learned that in the US , ostrich eggs are priced at $40-$75. Each fresh egg weighs 4 pounds and is the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs. . And sadly, it is listed as Endangered.

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Ostriches Parrots Eggs Africa 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

The island is teeming with so many birds that their eggs and young chicks were once harvested for food. This was definitely a trip to remember, and we have others to thank for mentioning it. Interestingly, the Latin binomial for Northern Gannet is Morus bassanus, a name derived from their association with the rock.

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Puffins Sanctuary Lamb Investigation 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). Summary result: relevant chemicals emitted by the plant can be found in the eggs. Bye, bye, Lesser Coucal.

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Birds Eggs Breeders McDonalds 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2014

Don’t get me wrong, they are nice to see, mostly because in winter we have so few shorebirds around in New York, but they are definitely not going to be the red-letter bird of an outing. Big Egg Marsh in Broad Channel, Queens, hosts a wide variety of shorebirds that come to fatten up on Horseshoe Crab eggs each and every spring.

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Breeding Eggs New York Birds 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2019

This would have to be one of the few families of Radjah Shelducks we have ever observed and definitely the smallest ducklings. The Radjah Shelduck will often nest in a tree hollow close to water and lay between six and twelve eggs. This colouration is not present in the adults, but is excellent camouflage for the ducklings.

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Family 2019 Eggs Rights 120

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

Lake Kerkini National Park in the north of Greece is the very best birding area in the Balkan Peninsula and definitely among the top ten hotspots of Europe. Surprisingly, despite being on the site of a former marsh, Kerkini is an artificial reservoir with the purpose of irrigation of arable fields. The lake lies at a mere 35 m / 115 ft a.s.l.

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Greece Pelicans Stray Dog Tortoises 227

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2022

At the start of this new trail we accidentally flushed a White-tailed Nightjar that was sitting on a lone pink egg. I must admit that I nearly tossed my food when I saw a bird fly across one of the ponds that was definitely a gull – but also definitely not a Laughing Gull.

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Trinidad Woodpeckers Ducks Abandoning 235

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2016

Peeping and dragging one or both wings along the sand, they definitely attracted attention. If we had been predators, their actions would have (hopefully) led us away from the nest, keeping their eggs and chicks safe. While not as adorable as chicks, I still love to see bird eggs!

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Eggs Long Beach Abandoning Abandonment 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

Birds hatch out of eggs, like some species of snakes, who also have no boobs, although with a snake the fact is more readily apparent. While snakes protect their eggs, and may protect their young for a short period of time after they hatch, baby snakes are very soon on their own. Call a wildlife rehabilitator!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Eggs Squirrels 255

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

There is egg predation, chick loss and sometimes possibly just some “bad parenting”! One pair of Pied Oystercatchers laid eggs the first year and did not appear to realise they were supposed to sit on them, but they have since learnt it is an essential part of rearing a chick and they have done so since.

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Eggs Raised Breeding Family 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

And for the first time, I saw a Bronzed Cowbird (which lays its eggs in other birds’ nests) checking out one of these nests. This Bronzed Cowbird definitely is not. Yellow-winged Caciques and Streak-backed Orioles were busy building their impressive hanging nests. The scene of the crime, as it were.

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Mexico Oregon Squirrels Falcons 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Another puzzling thing to me, as for me, the ideal number of people to live with would be somewhere between zero and one but definitely not above 1. According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. End of side note.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandoning 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

This does not happen, of course, because rarities are, by definition, rare, but that doesn’t stop us from hoping. Most birders, myself included, hope to find a rarity or two on every birding outing.

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New York Birds Sparrows Canada 202

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2015

Definitely a migrant and the Osprey that was in the area was not happy about this much larger interloper. The Snow Geese at Big Egg Marsh were fun to photograph as they landed on the field on Saturday. Not the best shot but this Bald Eagle was distantly digiscoped as it circled over Willow Lake.

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Bald Eagle New York City Birds Geese 181

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

There’s been both egg and chick predation and most pairs have laid at least two clutches of eggs over the past few months. It was definitely a birding highlight this week to discover it had safely made it back to Broome along with so many other shorebirds.

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Eggs Whaling Whales Breeding 101

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.

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Birds Eggs Laws Oregon 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

In Australia we definitely have our fair share of invasive species and the main problem is that we are such a huge land mass with such a small population. We have seen them on remote beaches hunting shorebirds and taking their eggs and they have been responsible for much of the egg loss in breeding Pied Oystercatchers along the Broome coast.

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Australia Species Feral Cats Feral 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

The official definition of CR status says the species could be gone within ten years, or could lose 80 per cent of its population within three generations – whichever comes first. Gujarat, December 2010. Target for today: critically endangered Sociable Lapwing ( Vanellus gregarius ).

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Sudan India Ukraine Camels 244

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Well that depends on several factors, the most important of which are the definitions of the terms “remote” and “endemic” My subjective thoughts on remoteness are that the term should be defined by two factors: 1. How difficult is the place to reach in terms of planes, trains and automobiles?

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South Africa Birds South America Feral Cats 202

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

One of the most interesting differences between birds and dinosaurs has to do with their eggs. A subset of dinosaurs including birds had changes in their skeleton that allowed for larger egs and/or more eggs to be managed by the female, for instance. The nature, distribution, and evolution of bird song is unclear.

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Birds Marsupials Primates Whaling 269

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

They expand the definition of this book from identification guide to avian reference book. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. ” These are all great. photography credits, and acknowledgements.

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North America America California Condor Birds 278

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

One of Whittaker’s first experiments was to place other birds’ preen oil on the nests and eggs of Dark-eyed Juncos. ” Terms in the text are italicized to indicate they are in the Glossary and the definitions are in plain language. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor. This is an extremely helpful aid.

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Science Research Turkey 2006 217

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Of all of the sections of the book I definitely learned the most from Evolution. Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds.

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Reptiles Bats Eggs Humane 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs. If birds don’t want to be handled, then they definitely didn’t want to be weighed. Sooty Terns are incredibly birds. Oh, the lessons of bird banding.

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Florida Birds Groups North Carolina 176

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Also in the Palm sort-of-flock, were a couple of these fantastic “Yellow” Pam Warblers, the eastern subspecies hypochrysea , definitely the less common of the two around here. I flushed several of them, mostly the brown breasted western subspecies, palmarum.

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North America North Carolina Tennessee South America 193

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

About three billion birds fly north to the Boreal Forest each spring to build nests and lay eggs. In the near future, President Obama is expected to give its construction a definitive thumbs up or thumbs down, and the decision he makes could prove far more important than anyone imagines.

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Obama 2008 United States North America 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Where does the female Emperor Penguin go after she has produced that one egg and handed it over to the male for incubation? And, what about that female Emperor Penguin, who disappears for two months after handing her one egg over to her mate? Technology to the rescue!

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

She chirped a quiet but definite message, and everyone in the room understood she was not done with life yet. Within a few hours we had cleaned it, picked it clean of maggots, and treated it for any residual maggots or their eggs. Not only were her organs exposed, the entire area was alive with maggots. She was indeed “The Special One.”

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 234

Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Ditto for "never," "always" and other such definitive words. First of all, anyone who has taught The Princeton Review's SAT, LSAT or GRE courses knows that answers with the word "everything" in them are rarely correct. Working for The Princeton Review for nearly a decade has made me forever (? really, Mary?)

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Vegan Laws Slaughter Slaughtered 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

However, if your cat is showing signs that he or she would definitely enjoy being kept indoors for the meantime, let them – never force your pet to go outside. Lots of cats also enjoy a whisked egg occasionally, but this is a once-in-a-while treat.

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Cats Chickens Pets Fish 100

Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

In my opinion, and I am a vegetarian, the second definition of humane is the MINIMAL that we should expect. And if you ever drive around an egg farm, hog farm, slaughterhouse, feeding lot, etc., In other words, the proverbial happy farm animal. The eventual kill is quick, clean, and painless. There are many gruesome pictures too.

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

This happened to me recently on a birding trip, with somewhat egg-on-the-face results. “Definitely!&# I was on a birding quest trip with my friend Geoff Heeter. Geoff looks out the open truck window, glances upwards, and shouts: “I think a huge flock of snow buntings just flew over the road!&# “Black and white?&#

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2011 Michigan Birds Ohio 217

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

The babies that hatched from these eggs were released on Florida’s east coast. The visibility of the BP oil spill might be blurred but it is definitely not forgotten. The numbers are significant when one considers the low stranding incidences reported prior to 2010. We documented the relocation of several turtle nests.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There are 160 to 200 species of marine birds here, depending on your definition of “marine bird” (Fox defines it as “species traditionally considered coastal,” including birds like Sandhill Cranes with the more traditional tubenoses, gulls, and ducks).

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs. Baird, who took it to his home base, the Smithsonian, and wrote it up, dedicating to the bird to Dr. Kirtland.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 226